Energy savings for Ballinderry guest house

BALLINDERRY
Country House which houses the largest privately owned swimming school
in Northern Ireland is set to benefit from significant savings in its
energy costs.

It will also considerably reduce its carbon emissions
following an investment in a new state of the art wood pellet boiler
fuelled by locally produced brites fuel.

Owned and ran by Ian and Louise Smyth, the couple are
already reporting that within the last 47 days they have calculated all
of their heating requirements to be costing them just over £11 per day.

"This is truly remarkable value based on what our
wood pellet boiler is doing," said Ian.

The guest house is 6,000sq ft and also features an
apartment plus a 10 metre indoor

swimming pool, which takes 19,000 gallons of water to
fill. The wood pellet boiler is providing all of our hot water and
heating requirements including heating the pool."

He explains, "Unlike any public pool we train
children from 31/2 years old upwards and so

although the usual temperature for a pool is 28
degrees, our pool is like a warm bath at 32 degrees and the pool hall is
also kept at 34 degrees."

Ian and Louise made the decision to go with a wood pellet boiler
earlier this year when their existing boiler needed to be replaced. "We
are definitely committed to doing our bit for the environment and our
aim is to eventually be carbon neutral so that when we go to sell the
business it is in a very good position from an environmental point of
view," added Ian.